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FISHING AND HUNTING NOTES A turtle weighing 800 pounds was taken recently in the fish nets at Point Judith K I IThe The United States government steamboat Jen Jeff C Davis was held up in the Yukon Uiver last month by a herd of migrating caribou crossing the river riverThink Think of muskrat skins selling for 222 whole ¬ sale Think of skunk fetching 9 Wow And only a few years ago trappers were getting fifteen cents as a good price for muskrats and 275 for skunks skunksWhat What is said to be the largest brook trout cap ¬ tured the past season was caught by Grant Phil ¬ lips in Lost Creek Wisconsin and weighed six and onefourth pounds It had a length of twentyfour and onehalf inches md a girth of thirteen inches It was taken on a Professor ProfessorAn An attack made by a swordfish on a ship which arrived at a port in India resulted in considerable damage to the vessel The ship was entirely stripped of her metal sheeting in the encounter The creature made a hole on the port side pene ¬ trating through a mass of copper and for fourteen incites into solid oak plank and timber timberState State Oume Commissioner John Baird of Michigan believes that the sutson has been closed sufficiently long against the hunting of partridges ruffed grouse iii that state and proposes that the legis ¬ lature authorize its reopening next year He sug ¬ gests that the season open in November instead of October as in the past pastFor For the first time this season two marlin sword fish were hooked and both successfully landed from the same boat ait the same time at Santa Catalina Island California This record belongs to A Hen ¬ ley of San Francisco and A B Clapp of Avalon who landed a 143 pound and 95pound fish re ¬ spectively off the entrance to Avalon harbor a short time ago agoA A pike weighing nineteen and a half pounds fortythree incites long and eighteen inches in cir ¬ cumference was caught by James Clarke of Buck land on November 23 in the English Thames waters on the estate of Lady FitzUerald at Pudlock Withey Bed Numerous good pike and fish of other species are frequently taken in these waters London Sportsman
